| Sacramento chart topping, genre defying quintet, Dance Gavin Dance have announced a UK and European tour for September 2022, their first since 2018. You can see the band at the following dates: 8th September 2022 – Stylus Leeds UK 9th September 2022 – o2 Ritz Manchester UK 10th September 2022 – Garage Glasgow UK 12th September 2022 – o2 Institute Birmingham UK 14th September 2022 – Engine Rooms Southampton UK 15th September 2022 – SWX Bristol UK 16th September 2022 – o2 Shepherds Bush Empire London UK 19th September 2022 – Melkweg Amsterdam NL 20th September 2022 – Ubel & Gefarlich Hamburg DE 21st September 2022 – Columbia Theatre Berlin DE 22nd September 2022 – Essigfabrik Cologne DE Tickets on sale 4th March 10am GMT www.dancegavindanceband.com This tour follows the bands Afterburner2021USTour inSeptember 2021, making it one of the first coast-to-coast indoor tours to hit the road post-pandemic. Despite facing numerous challenges related to touring in a post-pandemic world, the Afterburner 2021 tour was successfully completed and saw DanceGavinDancesell a whopping 78,500 tickets across 33 shows making it the band’s biggest tour to date. Dance Gavin Dance released their ninth studio album, Afterburner, in April of 2020. Since its release, the album has clocked up 124 million streams and topped a multitude of charts on two separate occasions, once with it’s digital release hitting #14 on the Billboard Top 200 and #1 across the Current Albums, Alternative, Billboard Top Albums, Digital, Current Digital Albums, Rock, Heavy Rock and Current Independent Albums charts and again when the physical version was released several months later due to the pandemic, when it hit #1 across Vinyl, Internet, Alternative, Rock, Hard Music, Independent Current Albums, #3 Top Current and Billboard Top Albums and #47 on the Billboard 200 charts. This past Christmas, the band surprised fans with a special holiday gift by dropping ‘Afterburner (Instrumental)’ on streaming platforms. It was previously only available via a Target exclusive double disc CD.As the undeniable statistics keep mounting up, the fact becomes more and more clear that Dance Gavin Dance are becoming one of this generation’s most popular and enduring forces from the world of heavy music. As Pollstar put it in their recent feature on the huge success of the tour – “Sacramento, Calif.-based Dance Gavin Dance is not just any band.” AboutDanceGavinDanceRejecting tired formulas at every step, Dance Gavin Dance merge progressive rock and post-hardcore with thick groove, brilliantly combining experimental music with hooks and a warped sense of humor. The group has amassed over 1.35 billion global streams, and 1.2 million album equivalent units sold across their catalog in the US alone. With hundreds of thousands of rabid fans engaged with Dance Gavin Dance on socials and their very own festival event, Swanfest, which sold out its inaugural edition in 2019 and is slated to see a triumphant return in 2022 in the band’s hometown of Sacramento this April, it all amounts to a full force band facing a mainstream that has overlooked them for too long. |